Connected mobility platform turning vehicle data into actionable intelligence for OEMS, mobility providers and fleet operators. Used, for example, by an OEM to predictively act on quality issues across 500K vehicles and 4 models; and by a global heavy vehicles manufacturer to identify road defects and accident zones for vehicles used in mining operations. ₹2CR round. Founded in Feb 2022. Founder & CEO Vikas was an MD at Accenture (12 years) in the UK. He worked in a contracted role as Deputy COO of Toyota Connected Europe (a tech outpost which uses vehicle data science to deliver mobility solutions for Toyota group companies).

Agentic AI credit intelligence platform to help US based lenders to automate the underwriting decision for small business loans. Agents undertake business verification, cash flow analysis and asset valuation analysis. This reduces lender costs and hastens decision making. $3.8M seed round. Other investors in the round: Karman Ventures, Pythia Ventures, Coughdrop Capital and a host of angels. Founded in Jan 2024. Founders: Utsav spent a decade at Uber and Cruise in the US; Shivi worked on risk analytics at Uber, Amex and Varo Bank also in the US.

Unified data platform with lake-first observability for enterprises - i.e. raw logs/traces/metrics are stored directly to avoid heavy upfront indexing. Aiming at 50 customers in India and the US, across logistics, fintech, eCommerce and SaaS. $2.5M seed round. Other investors in the round: Campus Fund, Point One Capital. Founded in Nov 2022. Founders: CEO Adarsh (IIT Kanpur) is a blockchain dev who co-founded ZKLabs (DevSecOps for decentralised infrastructure); CTO Balasubramanian graduated from IIT Bombay in 2024.

Conversational AI for the healthcare industry (the second such deal this week) which is clinical grade compliant - this one is for pharma companies in the US to call physicians and patients. Big pharma spends $30B a year to engage doctors and patients, most of which is done manual. Doctors are flooded with too much information, while on the other hand patients don't receive consistent support which leads to an up to 50% drop-off rate in treatment for long term illnesses. $5M seed round. Part of the YC Spring 2025 Cohort - YC is also part of this round. Founded in Dec 2024, SF based. Founders: CEO Supreet was at ZS, McKinsey and JPMorgan in New York; CPO Sahitya is a data scientist, most recently at Audible; Co-Founder Rajashekar is also a data scientist, most recently at AWS.

Conversational agents for the healthcare industry - deal 1 of 2 in this space this week. This one automates major patient interactions at hospitals (India for now, the US later) such as appointment booking, follow-ups, treatment preparation guidance. Claims to be active in "several Indian healthcare facilities", aiming at 50 hospitals and clinic chains by mid 2026. Quoting the CTO: ""Our vision is to build the AI nurse for every hospital, not to replace people, but to enable care teams to focus on critical patients while AI manages the routine coordination." $1.2M pre-seed round. Founded in Jun 2024. Founders: CEO Dhruv was a technical principal at Meta; CTO Ashish was a data scientist at LinkedIn and SAP.

Gamified employee engagement platform that gives access to a library of 180 digital activities to drive culture, learning and wellbeing amongst employees. Currently serves 150K employees across industries - e.g. Motilal Oswal, E&Y, Cipla and Nexus Malls. $500K seed round. Founded in 2011. Founder Pooja (Narsee Monjee, Warwick Business School) was a consumer engagement supervisor at Philip Morris.

Litigation focused legal-tech SaaS platform which uses AI to make legal documentation, translations and filings 10x faster as well as more accurate. The goal is to lower the time and cost of litigations in India. The system partners with advocates to be humans in the loop to verify AI driven work (in drafting written arguments, appeals, writs, petitions) and deliver accurate legal services within hours. $2M seed round. Other investors in the round include Force Ventures and angels including Nishchay Ag (Jar). Founded in Jan 2024. Comps: Lucio (raised this Oct 2025 - DeVC) is a legal-tech startup focused on document review and research (not litigation).

Intelligence layer for gaming studios - providing player insights, predictive analytics and hyper-personalisation - what it calls the "data-plane of intelligence". The platform captures every in-game event to deliver insights. At the early stages of partnering with newer gaming studios, product is pre-launch. $2M seed round. Founded in Jan 2025. Founders: Aashbir is a former consultant (Arthur D. Little and Kearney); Ashwin was a product lead art Electronic Arts; Jagveer was co-founder of YC21 alum Akudo (neo bank for teens).

Anti-Money Laundering platform that automates AML case investigations for banks and payment firms. The platform uses AI to drive speed, early detection and accuracy of AML cases in large financial datasets, while ensuring regulatory compliance. Focused on expansion in India and the Middle East - integrates into Zoho/Tally/Freshbooks. ₹1.1CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jan 2024. Founders: Akash (IIT Kanpur) was the founder of CenterStage AI (creatives generator); Vivek led BD at Sequoia backed TrueFoundry.

AI-ops platform for data infrastructure. The platform automates data protection and storage, helping tech teams manage multi-vendor systems across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. It will work with IT service providers and global integrators to build scalable infra for its clients. Pre-launch. $2.3M pre-seed round. Founded in Jan 2025. Founders: Tejas was at Dell for 17 years, leading global product engineering roles in data protection and cyber security; Ravi, also at Dell for the same period, was the Chief Architect of their Data Protection and Cyber Resiliency group.